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I hope you will never get this letter

https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/i-hope-you-will-never-get-this-letter
3•tyre•1h ago

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duxup•41m ago
I was setting Google's method of handing my account over in case I died not long ago. I stopped when they had a spot for me to write something personal. I didn't want to write it, I wanted to write a good letter.

Not long ago a friend died of cancer, far too young. He fought and I think had to know his odds were low (very low based on the type of cancer). He took a vacation with his family, wife and kids. His last weekend came very fast, faster than anyone anticipated.

His funeral arrangements and some other things were best guesses of his wishes because even though his odds were low he didn't make all his wishes known.

I think now it's better I write a bad letter rather than none.

kwertyoowiyop•9m ago
Powerful and unfortunately, relevant.

Cursor: 1.5x Faster Moe Training on Blackwell with MXFP8 Kernels

https://cursor.com/en/blog/kernels
1•tmm1•1m ago•0 comments

The Costs of Coding with Generative AI

https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-hidden-costs-of-coding-with-generative-ai/
2•depressed•2m ago•0 comments

DBQuacks: An interactive SQL tutorial powered by DuckDB

https://dbquacks.com/
1•RockstarSprain•3m ago•0 comments

Dissecting CPU-GPU Unified Physical Memory on AMD MI300A APUs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12743
1•matt_d•4m ago•0 comments

How to Scale Your Model: How to Think About GPUs

https://jax-ml.github.io/scaling-book/gpus/
1•matt_d•4m ago•0 comments

$36.5M in Emergency Funding to Protect Public Media in Vulnerable Communities

https://knightfoundation.org/press/releases/foundations-commit-36-5-million-in-emergency-funding-to-protect-public-media-in-vulnerable-communities/
2•petethomas•5m ago•0 comments

IEA: Renewables Will Be Top Power Source "By 2026"

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/08/18/iea-renewables-will-be-worlds-top-power-source-by-2026/
1•toomuchtodo•7m ago•1 comments

DeepSeek v3.1 just dropped – and it might be the most powerful open AI yet

https://venturebeat.com/ai/deepseek-v3-1-just-dropped-and-it-might-be-the-most-powerful-open-ai-yet/
1•ed•8m ago•0 comments

Research suggests doctors might quickly become dependent on AI

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/08/19/nx-s1-5506292/doctors-ai-artificial-intelligence-dependent-colonoscopy
1•geox•9m ago•0 comments

The Forgotten Meaning of "Jerk."

https://languagehat.com/the-forgotten-meaning-of-jerk/
3•aspenmayer•10m ago•2 comments

James Brown's Mastodon feed is the hackiest thing on the internet

https://mastodon.social/@ancientjames
1•limbicsystem•12m ago•0 comments

Send Harvard's Chinese Students Home

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/send-harvards-chinese-students-home-national-security-risk-research-2e43313d
3•kamaraju•18m ago•0 comments

How to quickly test your code with Pytest

https://codecut.ai/pytest-for-data-scientists/
1•Ben5554•18m ago•1 comments

Databricks is raising a Series K Investment at >$100B valuation

https://www.databricks.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/databricks-raising-series-k-investment-100-billion-valuation
1•ro_arepally•21m ago•0 comments

How Flu Shots Prevent Heart Attacks

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fevered-mind/202508/how-flu-shots-prevent-heart-attacks
3•amichail•22m ago•0 comments

95 per cent of organisations are getting zero return from AI according to MIT

https://www.ft.com/content/33914f25-093c-4069-bb16-8626cfc15a51
3•antithesizer•24m ago•2 comments

The Americans Following in the Footsteps of the Knights Templar

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/meet-americans-following-footsteps-knights-templar-180969344/
1•Anon84•28m ago•0 comments

'SPAC King' Palihapitiya makes a comeback with new blank-check IPO

https://www.reuters.com/markets/wealth/spac-king-palihapitiya-makes-comeback-with-new-blank-check-ipo-2025-08-19/
1•bgwalter•29m ago•0 comments

White House launches official TikTok account

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-launches-official-tiktok-account-2025-08-19/
4•giuliomagnifico•32m ago•1 comments

Drunken Bishop (2023)

https://re.factorcode.org/2023/08/drunken-bishop.html
4•todsacerdoti•33m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Wonder – AI-native design tool on canvas

https://twitter.com/aibek_design/status/1957856991608512898
1•yegemberdin•35m ago•0 comments

gRPC: A high performance, open source universal RPC framework

https://grpc.io
1•doener•38m ago•0 comments

CSF lipoprotein-mediated cholesterol delivery to neurons impaired in Alzheimer's

https://www.jlr.org/article/S0022-2275(25)00127-0/fulltext
1•bookofjoe•39m ago•0 comments

2026, Year of Reinforcement Learning?

https://aimlbling-about.ninerealmlabs.com/blog/reinforcement-learning/
1•namnnumbr•41m ago•0 comments

Microsoft Workers Protesting Israel Ties Say They Have Occupied HQ

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-19/microsoft-workers-protesting-israel-ties-say-they-ve-occupied-hq
3•mikestew•41m ago•5 comments

Increased animal pollination during the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/paleobiology/article/evidence-for-increased-animal-pollination-during-the-paleoceneeocene-thermal-maximum/149BE1218DC87646479C23976B0A1E62
1•PaulHoule•41m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SEO Middleware for Next.js

https://www.npmjs.com/package/seo-middleware-nextjs
1•dr_dimitru•41m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I made insta-like stories widget to mobile sites

https://getstorieswidget.com
1•frknbasaran•42m ago•0 comments

Intel's $25B Rally Sends Valuation to Dot-Com Levels

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-19/intel-s-25-billion-rally-sends-valuation-to-dot-com-era-levels
3•petethomas•43m ago•1 comments

Syrian Immigrants Are Boosting Germany's Economy

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-15/syrian-immigrants-are-boosting-germany-s-economy
3•fariszr•43m ago•0 comments